Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONThe victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
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We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
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Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
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Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.
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If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
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God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that begins by deceiving others, will end by deceiving himself.
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Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.
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